I think this is a real factor. Rust is winning over C/C++ devs to some degree, who are switching to it or adding it to their skillset, but C/C++ devs probably s

I think this is a real factor. Rust is winning over C/C++ devs to some degree, who are switching to it or adding it to their skillset, but C/C++ devs probably still outnumber them by a factor of, what 10:1? 20:1? Only some of those C/C++ devs have a background in OSDev as well. I suspect though that Rust is also getting a lot of its fanbase from the Go crowd, or other languages from the webdev side, where there isn't really strong hardware and OSdev skills to begin with.